In the last year, our church community has started a venture called The Money Clinic. It isn’t a debt counselling service, but rather a place for budget coaching and money education. An analogy that helped me when we setting this up was the difference between surgery or A&E (ER to my US friends) in a [...]
This has landed in my inbox from Brian Donaldson, and Neil has also posted it. But for completeness, here it is on this blog.
I found myself cringing, as I recognised how excruciating is can be for people who are not used to church culture, arriving in something that anyone who has been around church [...]
Another post on Welcoming, as we are exploring what happens when someone comes to our church (community) for the first time. It is a daunting prospect, new people, new language … but how can we help people get drawn into our community. We’re following the story of a (fictional) person turning up at our Sunday [...]
I am winding up for some down (holiday) time, so a distinct lack of blogging. But here is the next post of welcoming. We are thinking about how we can welcome new people into our community: this time looking at the first time you come to our church building. Comments welcome, even appreciated! Once again [...]
This is part 2 of a series on welcoming people into our church community. We are exploring what is working well, and what we can do to improve what we are doing. If you are part of our community, we would love your comments. If you aren’t part of our church, any comments that can [...]
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This starts a series on welcoming people into our church community. We are exploring what is working well, and what we can do to improve what we are doing. If you are part of our community, we would love your comments. If you aren’t part of our church, any comments that can help us would [...]
Continue reading about Welcoming 1 - Mystery shopper, mystery worshipper
I have long enjoyed the teaching of Rob Bell. I read once that Rob felt called to teach the Bible, but knew that he had to find a new way of communicating the truth he found there. His teaching on Sundays at his church reflects this somewhat. But he has also produced some short [...]
